The Dickinson press., 1887-05-28

same as they had made their old swords from,
am' presumably the same ns had been used to
make t!" odd Damascus blades. 1t is the best
steel low made in the world With these
llit'' ii:i,nts t;!'>'s patient workers hammered
away day after day as ] Ind directed until
the first rl"wsharc was finished In the
moan time the wool workers had made tho
l".t:n and handles from tho old oak in tho
Nra!" rgst!r ;sa:r When it had been put
th2t!!"r the pinw had very respectable up-
lcMalm"
Ti:'A'. OF THE FIRST rIow.
Thi "N!'r' incn lad excited II great deal of
attention frt.N .!'r .lalanc,a officials, and
lri l'''iN''i '."':'', that i'll u few days two or
th:@.' '','' .!:' ""i.> would b. present to- SEQ
IL" rlo" w".'l; y, the appointed time they
came, wi;'l" !5",l deal OF ceremony, and tho
l'l"w 's'. srr'.~ .~!uly tried. Tie as,onisll-
meNl "Nd d light nf the officials were very
grrn. 'i!.,y in.t'Il mo ton dinner and sent
present I" ;" mechanics who had made tho
ii!s' r''tn pi"w ever constructed in Japan.
Our ltil" shop gradually grew until tbecamo
lt4t;" fat n'y. We made everything used
ON n farm "Erort moving and !hrcshing ma
ciimS, Wrr."n made thimllc skcin wagons,
tii" 'l.im'lr hrn., cast nt the foundry of tho
navy Department. had to guess ut tho
width of tlie track, having forgotten tho
with of til" track of our wagons When
finished they oo:nl we'll and worked well, hut
] now know that they We're four inches wider
than even the old Illinois wide track wagons.
The mos, difficult task was to make spring
Steel fork tine, and spring steel teeth for hay
Ilkcs but we did both
IIEMrEN HARNESS.
In the hurry of this work some ovcrsights
wcrc bound to be made. One was in making
harness. When all ready for TINT, we found
that there was very little harness leather in
Japan, and there WAS no time to import it,
What was to lc done WIS II very serious
question. My mental resources were nearly
exhausted when l remembered having seen
tn" negroes down south during the war pillow.
illas with rope harness. Acting upon thnt, |
had made 200 sets of hemp harness, every
piece in the same shape as in leather harness,
ami they answered Il very useful purpose
Thcr" was not a piece of leather about them.
MS wc used canvas for the collars When
arrived on the ground selected for the farm
found that | hal not done with the plow
question. Some portions of the pasture were
covered with chestnut bushes, and the ground
was full of large roots, SO much SO that no
ordinary plow could cut them In order TO
prepare this gr"unl for blowing, men were
put TO grnhhinS out these roots. AT even
tho extremely low price at which labor is
paid there soon SAW that To grub out these
bushes would he an ,yrrnsv" operation l
therefore had a plow made TINT could not be
broken. II was made Of wrought steel, cut u
twcmty.six inch furrow, and was strong
enough to so through any obstacle To this
llow we ATTACKED hin" horses three :i.ir;,st,
and with it we went through the cl smut
bushes us though they had been l,,,",.
When the horses we're thoroughly broken and
u" plownrn had gained experience, one man
could pow from thre" to three and one-half
acres per day with this big plow.
TIE NATIVES, hsToSIsnED.
Near To our operations were large old farm
ing districts with n numerous population
Iiy the Tim" our plows and llnrrows were sue
cSsfuli: running the fame of the foreign
farm had spread to t!icsr people, and they
came h""kin;s in, whole Villages making
journeys tu see Tie wonderful foreign inlple-
ni"nt work. With their mod" Of digging up
iao soil with n matovk an eighth of an acre
is = !,ool days work for u man When tho
farn"%s, vino had never s".Ii any other than
luati"rk tilln%r, saw this great pillow turning
its twcn'J-siX inch ful'iow at the rate of
three acIrS PC" day. they held up their hands
amlrri"l, "Won!crful WONDERFUL" Through
the whocnf the first year our labor saving
machinery ,Ircw crowds of native farmers,
som" from Il distance of moro than 100 miles,
antl ,h''~" journeys were mos,l mad" on foot
a greater won'cr than the plpw, even, were
tine in"yn. machines Some of the pasture
divisions ",r. clear of Lrllsii, smooth as n
holt Nppr, with fin" grnss for l,nv a pair
Of lnpnHrs,' ponies, with iifly-four inch
srllr bar mower, could easily cut from
tm'i"e I" fifteen acres per day, while with
Ja;;,i"s" irass knife quarter of an acre was
cutti y; :, swn'h iifty-fou inchc, wc, a, fast
Us horses "nuld walk, took ill" breath away
from these snpl" people.
DANGEROUS CURIOSITY.
How the ma '!4inc did it was the mystery,
rs tn" sickle aud bar when work was being
done was hidden inthc grass. Their curiosity
would lead them directly i'll front Of the ma
chine" in spite of the warnings of the driver,
and il was found necessary to have II
InciNtcd attendant with each machine to save
tl- limbs of tho curious. y corn shellnr was
nnot.rr n,nrvel, taking in tie car, nf corn
and Dis lar"in;, the shcllc,l corn at one open
Ing aI.l tie o,s at another Bat wli:lt struck
t!Yni t!unib was self rakinS harvester The
C. iiGI''i"m Of that could be explained to
III 4; ninlS only on tn" grounds that tn" i'll
yra;or was Il wizard and dealt in the super
natural. IL Latham in San Francisco
Chro:lie!r.